skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it turns out that mathematicians and computer scientists have devised schemes that allow for certain computational operations to be performed on encrypted data without revealing the data itself. You can do a+b=c and it doesn’t reveal anything about what a and b are is the intuition here. This has been mostly confined to the realm of theory and mathematics until very recently but Apple has operationalized it for the first time.
> I simply wasn't sending enough emails to keep my reputation score high enough

I’ve used a smaller hosting company for over 25 years run by a competent admin and it’s now dying a slow death I believe exactly because of this reputation problem from infrequent outbound emails from my domain.

I don’t know what to do tbh because putting my fate in big tech seems super dangerous.

Anyway, everyone is worried about spam but the real problem is sending and having people at outlook.com and gmail.com actually receive your emails!
> But I think one should also be wary of articles that make you angry and tell you what you suspected all along. (eg see the commenter elsewhere who doesn’t care about the details and is just angry). It’s much easier to spot this kind of rage-bait piece when it is targeting ‘normal people’ rather than the in-group.

The article was published by an Apple developer and user, i.e., myself, on my personal blog, which is followed mainly by other Apple developers and users. My blog comprises my own personal observations, insights, and opinions. If you see any rage, it would be my own personal rage, and not "bait". Bait for what?
The course I did back in 2015 had a really good focus on the fundamentals; it helped immensely. At some point I also did DAB although I didn't follow it all the way to the end, but it also helped, especially with perspective.

One thing that distract me is the amount of stuff I need to learn as my goal was to learn digital painting. Drawing is very important but it's just the first step, then you have lots of other stuff like values, color, light, composition, etc. So you start to look into these things and there are an obscene amount of material to learn so it gets overwhelming and it put me off every now and then.

I confess that I need to improve my organization skills to be able to go through all that stuff without getting frustrated.
I think this is indeed a problem of awareness - and I'm sure you're right that companies wouldn't go out of their way to let users know they can do so - but also one of trustworthiness: I think a lot of people don't trust third-party repair shops because they feel it's sketchy or unsafe in some way. If phone manufacturers were like, "Here's a list of our trusted third-party repair shops and the parts they can fix" I imagine a lot more people would get their stuff repaired.
Birdstrike #2 engine possibly captured on video:

https://x.com/Global_Mil_Info/status/1873181671375421703
Note that the survivors of the Russian shoot-down of the Embraer 190 were all in the tail section. Nominally, of course, as here have been accidents where the tail struck first and that is where there were more injuries or fatalities.
I don't have any skin in the game as far as this particular case goes but if there was a list of CEOs who would order a hit, Sam Altman would 110% be near the top of that list. The guy is a straight-up sociopath.

> What would killing him now possibly accomplish?

Dissuading future potential whistleblowers of course.
Thank you for sharing. For any young programmers: live within your means, invest the difference, become independent, and work on what you enjoy. It’s the best (work related) gift you can give yourself.
This the end game that Silicon Valley created. An automation arms race between two competing groups that were initially trying to save a little time or cut down on staffing but escalated it to the point where the default approach would be considered unforgivably assholish 15 years ago, people that don’t buy into it at least somewhat are drowning in bullshit, and nobody’s happy— but on paper everybody’s got record productivity!

With LLMs, this same exact scenario is playing out in other realms. Look at writing and publishing. Sure you’re on top of the world before everyone else catches up, but when they do, there’s now just a boilerplate of exponentially expanding bullshit and counter-bullshit that everyone has to circumvent to do anything.
Ah no, was about going to go on a (short) rant about lobste.rs as a sign of the disease of academia spreading to industry (via SW"E"s, no less) and further on how these two tribes exchange diseases but not cures and furthermore got distracted..

>he argues

Before that happens here, I now prefer "feedback" to persuasion but of course that is still usually poorly taken as ADvice (by yours truly, at least) if we leave out the "Ciceronian"

Personal social feedback that the People want, take that, DomGPT!

(A drop in replacement for the Man in the fight against (co)solipsism sans dang's assist)
>Look at what the eBay CEO did to someone simply criticizing them.

If you're trying to imply openai killed him and that's the best example of corporate retaliation you can come up with, then you're nowhere close to proving your point. Sending pigs heads is despicable, by nowhere close to ordering a hit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal
I made a tool called Slate AI[0] that you can run locally. It organizes your chat threads and image generations into tabs that you can save on your local disk (as JSON files in Open AI API format) and reload to continue later. Exports markdown, too.

[0] https://github.com/garranplum/slate-ai-public
Rust binaries, once stripped, are not necessarily much fatter than their C++ counterparts. We're not expecting a huge increase there.

Embedded distros should still be supported, though you might need to cross-compile for a few depending on rust toolchain availability. Cygwin is supposed to be getting a working rust target at some point, but who knows?
There’s no way Morphy at his peak would beat Magnus at his peak (and the same goes for any of the old champions)— The way chess is played today is very different. Morphy would have needed to start from scratch and re-learn the game today from a young age to have any chance… But then he wouldn’t be the same Morphy.
It represents the same psychology on the part of the perpetrator.
Can LLMs accurately recall the Bible?
We've actually added support to make single-binary fish deployments possible by (optionally) bundling static resources that would be part of the CMake-based deployment into the binary itself and having it unwrap those on first execution. The limitations of Cargo and the idiomatic `cargo install` usage primarily motivated this.
Plenty of Linux distributions phone home, in some way, by default.
It's weird to me that your line of thinking is actually a thing. It is not difficult to make a water-tight battery compartment for an electric toothbrush, but also make it trivial to open up and replace the battery. Hell, I just did a quick search for "electric toothbrush AAA battery", and these things exist and presumably work fine.

I feel like modern phones and the marketing around them (mostly from Apple) has pushed this nonsense that it's difficult to make water-resistant or water-proof electronics that still have a user-replaceable battery. Unfortunately this marketing seems to be working. Worked on you, at least. Gaskets, o-rings, and pressure seals are old, time-tested technology.

Admittedly it isn't as easy to make a water-resistant smartphone as it is to make water-resistant electric toothbrush. But it's far from impossible.
like that movie about the couple that bought tons of lotto tickets
There are non-clicky keys!
> I don't think you're trying to understand what I'm saying

I'm trying, but obviously I'm failing.

> I don't think I need to specify that by uninformed decision I mean evaluating the security risk of the feature.

For the third time, that wasn't what I was trying to do with the blog post.

> you're (understandably) not engaging with me fairly in retaliation

I don't think you're understanding me either. I'm not retaliating. I was trying to clarify.
We tested pretty heavily, setting BIOS clock and stopping ntp from resetting time, but despite proving to ourselves nothing would happen, one of my teams sysadmins said he hated fireworks, and for $200 agreed to stay in the machine room over the window. He texted me 5min into 2000 saying "nothing happened" and we all went to sleep.
You probably heard references to Samuel Slater. He memorized the plans for British textile equipment and brought them to the US. He violated British law, but US law did not mind.

Then there is Eli Whitney, to give an example of an American who enjoyed US patent protection. He patented his cotton gin.

You would want to ask a historian for other examples.
He thinks he's not smart enough for it.

He describes the good Forth programmers as people who are so smart they can focus on nothing but the problem. To such people, programming languages, operating systems, libraries, even the chips that run all this stuff, they are all non-problems, to be reduced or eliminated. And to do that, it requires that the mind be able to compensate for all the comfort all of those layers would have afforded.

> Why pay this cost? [The cost of adding junk you don't actually need]

> Because I don't do algorithms, other people do, so I have to trust them and respect their judgment to a large extent.

> Because you need superhuman abilities to work without layers.

> The Forth way of focusing on just the problem you need to solve seems to more or less require that the same person or a very tightly united group focus on all three of these things, and pick the right algorithms, the right computer architecture, the right language, the right word size, etc.

> I don't know how to make this work.

> having people being able to do what at least 3 people in their respective areas normally do, and concentrating on those 3 things at the same time

> Doing the cross-layer global optimization.

A sufficiently smart person is capable of analyzing and optimizing the problem from the requirements all the way to the literal chip running the software. They come up with custom unconventional algorithms and implement weird chips with 18 bit words.

These are people who are smart enough to modify standard engineering equations. Those things weren't sacred to them, they understood them to the point they felt confident enough to change them in such a way that they could be efficiently implemented in some weirdly minimal custom chips[1]. And this somehow yielded more efficient algorithms which were easy to implement in Forth.

I share their enthusiasm for minimalism and eliminating the dependencies and the "junk". It always ends with me learning everything I can about the junk and doing it myself, maybe even reimagining it, hopefully better and smaller this time. I can only hope to one day be half as smart as some of these folks seem to be, though. Every time I try to get into hardware, I discover my limits.

[1]: The Yamaha DX7 is an example. People understood things and reframed the problems until the solution fit the available resources. They needed a sine wave...

https://www.righto.com/2021/12/yamaha-dx7-reverse-engineerin...

> multiplying the sine wave by the envelope level yields the output

> However, fast multiplication required too much hardware in the 1980s, so the DX7 uses a mathematical shortcut: adding logarithms is equivalent to multiplying the values.

> The obvious problem is that computing logarithms is harder than multiplying, but the trick is to store the (negated) logarithm of the sine wave in the lookup table (below) instead of the sine wave.

> This provides the logarithm for free.

> The implementation takes advantage of the symmetry of the sine wave so only a quarter-wave needs to be stored.
Anti-Christmas Protest Cancelled After "Unpopular Men" Don't Complete Paperwork
Open AI fails here:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6770c547-2f90-8004-ba41-21bfa4d3a7...

Curious about your local LLM usage -- do you have that documented, or can you recommend sources on how to get started in that domain? I self host most of my infrastructure, but not LLMs so far. Do you need special hardware? How do you interact with the LLMs? How to you keep them updated? Do you fine tune/do any training, or just of the shelf llama? Do you need to know a bunch about quantization? How fast are the responses? Can you use them in your IDE as a coding assistant? How is resource utilization?
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332v1

The direct link to the paper
> Street cars != Intercity Rail

No, but the two feed into each other. Intercity rail loses most of its advantages if you have to hire a car at the destination.

> Also I'd argue street cars are way worse than busses which have route flexibility.

They're better for that very reason. You can move somewhere with a decent commute and know that the streetcar isn't going to disappear at the stroke of a pen.
I think humans are probably still better (a) *when they write tests and (b) when they know how to. Neither is true for a lot of programmers but might happen if automated cheaply.

I also think traditional tools are better for this. The test, generation methods include path-based, combinatorial, concolic, and adaptive fuzzing. Fire and forget tools that do each one, suppressing duplicates, would be helpful.

What would be easier to train developers on are contracts (or annotations). Then, add test generation either from those or aided by static analysis that leverages them. Then, software that analyzes the code, annotates what it can, and then asks the user to fill in the holes. The LLM’s could turn their answers into formal contracts or specs.

That’s how I see it happening. Maybe add patch generation into that, too. At least two tools that predate LLM’s already find errors and suggest fixes.
I've long been convinced that Big Tech wants email to go away because it's neither fashionable nor particularly profitable. Gmail was famously somebody's "10% project", after all, and not a real product initiative.

Now that the era of free money appears to be over I'd not be surprised if I was reading a blog post about an "incredible journey" at Gmail within the decade.

While I think that everyone hosting their own email is the ideal, it's not really feasible on today's Internet. I content myself with fastmail. They're big enough I'm not worried about them dying any time soon.
If that's the case, why was at least one such ebike battery the subject of a CPSC recall?

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2023/E-Bikes-Recalled-Due-to-Fi...

from: https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/11/21/ebikes-fires-lithium-ion-...

There definitely needs to be better regulation/inspection:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/us/nyc-ebike-store-fire-lithi...

but agree that a more even-handed approach to repair is warranted:

https://nypost.com/2024/03/03/us-news/more-nyc-fires-caused-...

and I'd be glad to be pointed to articles from independent sources which are impartial.

The Manhattan apartment building my son lives in suffered such a fire --- fortunately my son and his dog made it out safely, and his unit only had smoke damage, but he was out of his apartment for months of moving from one motel room to another every 30 days once his insurance kicked in.

That said, folks need to be more respectful of and careful with batteries in general --- my brother-in-law's home was damaged by a fire caused by a digital camera battery over a decade ago.
How does Llama-3.2 3B compare to Phi-3.5?
Let’s step back and go through the thought process of the team that’s implementing this feature. If they leave the feature disabled by default most likely casual users will never use it because they won’t be able to find the setting buried under all the menus. Thus after adding all their privacy layers the team felt that it should be safe enough to enable by default while remaining true to the company’s ethos of privacy.

Now what would you have done differently if you were in charge of rolling out such a feature? While I don’t like Apple phoning home without my consent, in this case my photos are not being sent to Apple; only anonymized hashes used to match well known landmarks.

The author of the article goes on to show his bias against Apple with phrases like “You don't even have to hypothesize lies, conspiracies, or malicious intentions on the part of Apple to be suspicious of their privacy claims” or “Apple's QA nowadays is atrocious.”

Or this rich quote “I never wanted my iPhone to phone home to Apple.” What smartphone or computing device never communicates back to their company servers? Even when I use open source libraries I have to communicate with repositories to check for dependencies. Does the author hide every online transaction he makes? Never using email or text messages or cloud services which will leak his private information? Unlikely. He just wants to grind his axe against Apple.

So let’s step back and look at it reasonably and see if Apple is trying to erode our privacy with this feature. I personally don’t see this particular feature as being harmful, but I will thank the overzealous author of bringing it to my attention and I’ll be disabling the feature since I don’t need it. This feature is no where near as invasive as the CSAM detection tool that was proposed, which did warrant critical discussion.

Let’s let the team, undoubtedly one of many with the unenviable task of making Apple Intelligence relevant, who rolled out the feature get their yearly bonus and move on to discuss more enlightening topics such as as the merits of keeping tabs on the urination habits of the crew on the ISS via the Mac menubar.
It's not really a conceptual leap if you've ever had to work with "don't care" cases before...
Yeah, there was BSD, Coherent, SCO, Xenix, etc. Arguably OS/2 was also a "real" operating system.
I don't think this was always owned by Typogram

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29010443

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29028660

And to bypass the blogspam: https://www.codingfont.com/
> It's probably a pretty large set of people, perhaps even the majority

As the article notes, this new feature is so "popular" that neither Apple nor the Apple media have bothered to mention it. AFAICT it's not even in Apple's document listing all the new features of iOS 18: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-18/pdf/iOS_18_All_New_Features...
Think about it this way: for people who turn off any & everything that phones home (aka anyone who is frustrated by this new "feature"), the chances of them having turned on something like that upon install is almost nil.
No? There’s literal billboards linked on this thread that say “what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.”

Apple patting itself on the back.
Cool!

Slightly off topic, but maybe an idea for someone to pursue... I figured out at a very early age that I could not memorize text in a script, or poetry, or even flashcards very well. But because I started playing piano at a very early age, somehow I could remember song lyrics verbatim. I could probably sing/recite at least 200 CDs worth of lyrics end to end.

When I wanted to learn Spanish, memorizing songs was way more helpful than anything else I tried. Even if I didn't understand all the words at first, suddenly a lyrical phrase would become clear when I heard some of the words in a conversation.

I'm not sure AI is up to writing really memorable songs yet. But for those of us with some kind of synesthesia, there could be lots of associations that aid memory, like colors, melodies or rhythms.
FWIW, a "Network Access" app permission is one of the features that GrapheneOS provides. It is only setting offered to the user every single app install. It should be in base AOSP, and I have to wonder why it isn't already.
>This presupposes both an interest in religion and organized sports.

Sorta but not really. Lots of people just fake it for the community aspects.
Thanks but one cannot be too ambitious like that! '00s would mean the end of zip drives, dealing with unstandardized flash drives flakier than the floppy disks of old, and supporting point-and-shoot digital cameras!
Someone notable, unambiguously murdered in broad daylight, with ample surveillance footage to go off of, is far easier to justify spending investigative resources on than an apparent suicide maybe being a murder. As the saying goes: "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras"
We did some Christmas quiz and as asked ChatGPT one of the answers, as the magazine had missed printing some of the answers by accident.

It was to do with a song used as a theme to a sitcom, and it changed the name of the song in the first answer, then it changed the name of the song and the sitcom on the second, and I forget what the third one did. Then I Googled it and got my answer straight away.
ChainStream: An LLM-Based Framework for Unified Synthetic Sensing
Bird concentration chart for the airport, as published by the Korea Office of Civil Aviation. Really not sure what they would expect a pilot do with this information. Also not really sure how they convince the birds to stay in the marked areas.

http://aim.koca.go.kr/eaipPub/Package/2022-06-30/pdf/AD/RKJB...
The tall poppy thing exists well in the pocket of the US midwest I grew up in (Rust Belt) - I understand it to be a cultural inheritance from the Irish/English/Scottish working class which remain cohesive communities. When you scope out to the broader American culture it dissipates, though I wouldn't be surprised to find it in other kinds of communities.
Hopefully not trashed. There's always the second hand market.
We took an incredible amount of care to consider the package maintainer requirements for our the most popular distributions using/distributing fish. One of our maintainers is very careful about letting us know when we're doing something that might upset distro packagers, and we're constantly letting package maintainer guidelines and requirements influence how we structure fish itself and which dependencies we pull in.
NASA's next space station will be in lunar orbit:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/gateway/
The poster wrote “RAD development”, which implies highly visual development environments for making client side apps eg for desktop , mobile, or web. Xft is a library that draws text and graphics. That’s what I thought the poster referred to because in the article the text rendering is pretty poor. Addressing font rendering is critical to get perfect for a RAD / visual development tool.

So I also think the poster’s statement is ambiguous.
I know this form of procrastination and action avoidance. :-) Never in my life have I applied to more than 3 companies, and never in my life did I need (or receive, as a hiring manager) a cover letter. My CV was always quite sufficient. The most idiotic part of the whole process (besides the interview loop, that is) is that I can't just submit my LinkedIn profile and be done with it, every single company insists that I enter my info (which is quite extensive, 25 years in) into their system manually. For resume I just export my LinkedIn as PDF these days.
Please refer to the thoughts of Google's former CEO: AI can create deadly viruses!

https://powtain.com/pow/Ox2zJL
Qualcomm did this years ago:

https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware
It’s been a very deadly year for airplane safety?
I have no explanation for it, but I also run a tiny mail server and I'm always fascinated that despite extremely low volume I still manage to get through without being flagged or blocked.

Best I can guess is that my host's netblock just happens to be sparkling clean, but it sounds like even that may not be enough anymore
That doesn’t make sense, and the other user is right that you can’t give up personal data with this scheme. Perhaps focus on the real privacy leaks from cell phones like tower connections and sign-ins to Instagram.
Couchettes are cheaper, lower-comfort bunks.

Most sleepers also offer cabins with proper beds (for a premium).